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The Personnel Selection Officers’ Association is a non-profit organization whose objectives are as follows:

a. primarily to provide a social forum for perpetuating a sense of fellowship and good relations among its members; and

b. secondly, to provide a forum for exchange of information of professional interest to its members.

The PSOA originally stood up in 1980 with the support of the Branch Advisor and it was closely connected to the Personnel Selection Officer Branch mission for approximately 16 years. In the latter part of the 1990s, the volunteer Executive and active membership could not be sustained due to a number of factors, including the Forces Reduction Plan (FRP) combined with a large turnover of Association and Branch members.

Through the determined efforts of several key people, including Major Pierre Labonté and Major Paddy Douglas, the PSOA was reborn in 2004.

The PSOA Website is an unofficial site dedicated to promoting the news and views of the Personnel Selection Branch of the Canadian Armed Forces.